A grammar of Kurtöp /

A grammar of Kurtöp / / by Gwendolyn Hyslop.

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A grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in...

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Superior document:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; Languages of the greater Himalayan region v. 5/18.
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Hyslop, Gwendolyn.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 18.
Physical Description:1 online resource (474 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Contrastive Phonology
  • Non-contrastive Phonology
  • Word Classes and Word-formation Processes
  • Lexicon
  • Syntactic Overview
  • The Noun Phrase
  • Post-head Nominal Modifiers
  • Proforms
  • Case-Marking
  • The Verbal Complex
  • Copulas and Non-verbal Predication
  • Nominalization
  • Tense/Aspect
  • Evidentiality, Mirativity, and Related Categories
  • Multi-clause Constructions
  • Negation and Non-declarative Speech Acts
  • Rhetorical Devices
  • References
  • Appendix A: Texts
  • Appendix B: Abbreviations and Typological Features
  • Appendix C: A Guide to the Examples
  • Appendix D: Database of Recordings and Speakers from which Examples are drawn
  • Index.

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